Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2011

I gave a keynote on entrepreneurship to MPowered , the student Entrepreneurship Organization, spoke on a panel on Entrepreneurship and the Aerospace Industry, and gave another keynote at the Ann Arbor New Tech Meetup and A2Geeks , the regional startup network. Venture Capital ; met with the local hardware/software venture capital firm.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. Corporate VCs open the door to their parent companies and are well networked in their industries. Corporate VC networks extend beyond their own parent companies. Mari Holds a B.A.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

announced this evening at its annual Pitch Night , that it has received sponsorship by the Kauffman Foundation to support its "Founder Labs," a pre-incubator program whose mission is to increase the number of female founders of technology startups. Diverse Founding Teams, Agile Development Techniques. and that creates jobs."

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AUGUST 5, 2010

Quickly iterate the product in front of customers. Drive for a repeatable and scalable business model (revenue in Dave McClure’s investment thesis, “ network of scale &# in Union Square’s.). YCombinator, Techstars, et al, have been described as incubators but in reality they are the new “Lean Angels.” Lean Angels.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

They’ll learn how to apply “lean startup” principles, (“mission model canvas,” “customer development,” and “agile engineering”) to discover and validate agency and user needs and to continually build iterative prototypes to test whether they understood the problem and solution. Real Problems.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab. The discoveries in tube and circuit research suggested new electronic intelligence and countermeasure techniques and systems; in turn the needs of the Applied Lab pushed tube and circuit development. It’s amazing this guy ever slept.

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JANUARY 17, 2016

Yet this same network of connected people affects who gets funded, how startup teams form, and who gets hired. . Looking to create their accelerator/incubator, Wayne and seven other founders rented a Silicon Valley house together one summer. In ’05, social networking was not quite as prevalent as is it today. Wayne : Yes.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2016

Fifth, we wanted to create the 21 st Century version of Tech ROTC by having Hacking for Defense taught by a national network of 50 colleges and universities. And we will build a knowledge base of DOD/IC acquisition primers, customer development best practices, org charts, etc. What Would We Change?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

They’ll learn how to apply “lean startup” principles, (“mission model canvas,” “customer development,” and “agile engineering”) to discover and validate agency and user needs and to continually build iterative prototypes to test whether they understood the problem and solution. Real Problems.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Every summer, they bring approximately 10 companies to Boulder for an intense "accelerator" experience (dont call it an incubator, or youll get dirty looks). And they expose the startups to a vast network of mentors, none of whom get paid for their involvement. And do your customer development.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Torch has four major parts: Innovation Clusters , Technology Business Incubators (TBIs), Seed Funding (Innofund) and Venture Guiding Fund. It did so by building a national network of a 1,000+ Productivity Promotion Centers. They provide consulting, promotion, product testing, hiring, training and incubation services to startups.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

He is also a co-founder of XediaLabs , a DC-based incubator that provides training and technical consulting to local startups. There’s no reason why funding should act any differently (based on color) but there’s an unintentional bias that comes from networks and exposure to networks.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Torch has four major parts: Innovation Clusters , Technology Business Incubators (TBIs), Seed Funding (Innofund) and Venture Guiding Fund. It did so by building a national network of a 1,000+ Productivity Promotion Centers. They provide consulting, promotion, product testing, hiring, training and incubation services to startups.

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Eric Friedman

JUNE 16, 2016

Feedback: Getting early user and customer feedback from people outside the office. Network: A group of peers to brainstorm, conspire, partner, help, collaborate and vent to. Advisors: Expa will leverage its own advisor network for the breakfast series, announce the companies on our channels, and introduce folks who have interests.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Which is a huge strength and has network benefits that people couldn’t anticipate. Not only the theorists but constituents for customer development, or with Main Street businesses and local constituents. We need to know what sweet spots for customer development work best with zoom and that don’t work best with zoom.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

This isnt trivial - believing in the projections and selling your passion and networking to find investors are all really hard. I cant keep count of the number of people who I talk to on a daily basis online or in person, at networking events, etc. social network/web analysis/etc. This is utter bullshit. This is utter bullshit."

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 23, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, June 23, 2009 Join the lean startup discussion at Facebook on Thursday I recently agreed to join Facebook s fbFund incubator as a mentor. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? If youd like to reserve a spot, please RSVP.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Almost every large organization has some kind of incubator or accelerator program. Big companies know how to scale—most have a lot to learn about starting (as in Lean Startup) but they know how to leverage assets, use network effects, plan and execute. in developing these new models. And why wouldn’t it be?

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Peter and Jonathan discuss startup incubators, and our guest Caroline talks to us about the “F” word and 10 reasons why startups fail. Startup Incubators – (2:13). Read also: Q&A with Business Incubator Co-founder Joe Maruschak. Peter: Joe talks a little bit about this idea of incubators.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. Lead Gen: I utilized my friends, professional contacts, and Harvard networks by sending out emails to list serves, reaching out to people, and getting referrals.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

incubators, e.g., the many options in New York. Customer development would be reduced to a single person exercise that could be repeated in parallel dozens of times over, ultimately yielding 30+ companies a year. However, valuing the intangibles of time saving, expertise, network, etc. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Only if you’re doing it with the intention to learn about the market and customers. The value they add (other than $$) is their network.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The class was designed to teach educators (and the adjunct entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship. Additionally, meeting with speakers grants students an opportunity to develop networking skills.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The class was designed to teach educators (and the adjunct entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship. Additionally, meeting with speakers grants students an opportunity to develop networking skills.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

What this means is that the emergence of incubators and super angels have dramatically expanded the sources of seed capital. Incubators and accelerators like Y-Combinator have institutionalized experiential training in best practices (product/market fit, pivots, agile development, etc.);

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Reply steveblank , on September 16, 2009 at 7:00 pm said: Greg, The Google Group “Lean Startup Circle&# at [link] is a wonderful repository of Customer Development/Lean Startup success and failure. It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages. I’ll add more as time goes on.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Social networking. share Powerpoints and docs with customers. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. Incubator List/ Local Startup Resources/ Startup Q&A. List of Startup Incubators. Codeacademy. Lean Methodology Sources.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team?

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